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Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale College in 1991 with a degree in history, he worked for a few months in Japan before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. He gained recognition and critical acclaim for his debut in Primal Fear (1996), which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination in the same category. His role as a redeemed neo-Nazi in American History X (1998) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also starred in the film Fight Club (1999), which garnered a cult following. Norton established the production company Class 5 Films in 2003, and was director or producer of the films Keeping the Faith (2000), Down in the Valley (2005), and The Painted Veil (2006). He continued to receive praise for his acting roles in films such as The Score (2001), 25th Hour (2002), The Italian Job (2003), The Illusionist (2006), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). His biggest commercial successes have been Red Dragon (2002), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Incredible Hulk (2008), and The Bourne Legacy (2012). For his roles as a haughty actor in Birdman (2014) and Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown (2024), Norton earned further Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He has also directed and acted in the crime film Motherless Brooklyn (2019) and starred in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022). Norton is an environmental activist and social entrepreneur. He is a trustee of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit organization that advocates for affordable housing, and serves as president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. He is also the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity.
Bruce Banner has had his abilities for 5 years now. He has been on the run from the military and S.H.I.E.L.D. As Bruce is struggling with his physical troubles, he's also struggling mentally with the Hulk. Bruce knows that Hulk will be needed in some occassions. We see the parallels between the 2 entities. Hulk is angry yet intelligent, wreckless and furious. Bruce is a scientist who is well organized. In the climax, they learn to co-exist with each other but not quite Professor Hulk yet. Hulk fights Ross's answer to the gamma mutation, Emil Blonsky. In the wreckage of Harlem, Bruce sacrifices most of his humanity to even let Hulk co-operate. After Betty's death, this makes Bruce want to be better mentally. Being recruited by Nick Fury, not for his physical attributes but for his true power, his brain.
